I agree Heather Cox Richardson’s blog is more like an op-ed than news, but it’s the only op-ed I have a habit of reading.
I mostly read headlines served up by Google News for hourly stuff. I listen to the local NPR channel on my commute so Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Thank you everyone. I see some good suggestions, maybe scaling back a bit on my consumption might be one of the best.
BBC, Channel News Asia (CNA), South China Morning Post, Associated Press
(And my local news, on local CTV station. But it’s truly just local stuff, jr hockey scores, etc.)
There’s often a lot more news in her op-ed than in the actual news (which is often a lot of op-ed). And she cites all her sources carefully.
Here (you guys are good at weeding out the click-bait), CNN and local for weather.
Local news lead story tonight: Missing person from a semi-local area case solved from 1971 with a skull found in another distant location in 1986 with familial DNA.
I’m sorry for the victim and loved ones, but GODDAMN! That is some Six Degrees of Don’t Give A Fuck.
In general I’m in favor of private enterprise but I try to avoid for-profit television news, whether cable or broadcast, local or national. Someone, I forget who, once said something like “The purpose of the evening news is not to inform the public. The purpose of the evening news is to sell shampoo.” The lurid, breathlessly reported stories are presented only in the hopes that the suckers will stick around long enough to be exposed to the commercials. The 24-hour news channels are even worse since they have 24 hours of time to fill but most days not even 24 minutes worth of newsworthy events to fill it with.
The two news outlets I visit every day are the BBC (free online) and the Wall Street Journal (online subscription). I also get and read the New York Times Morning Newsletter (free via email, though I don’t currently subscribe to the newspaper). On my Facebook feed I follow the AP, Reuters, the PBS NewsHour, The Hill, and AFP (Agence France-Presse, in French, but Facebook provides a decent translation function if you can’t read la langue de Molière).
Same here, also flipping the dials to MSM on SXM.
Also tuning into hear a variety of opinions expressed on CSPAN, Urban View,POTUS.